Ticket Horde has just written a nice little post about 2009 NCAA Basketball Tournament Tickets. I will give you the highlights below:
Apparently, you now have to submit an application, pre-paid, by May 15th to get an opportunity to get tickets. In other words, you pay roughly $193-$208 for each round 1 site now (approx. $160 for the regionals), then, if applicants do not exceed availability, you get to purchase tickets. If applications exceed the available tickets, you will be entered into a random drawing.
I for one am not surprised at this move - it will discourage some ticket resellers from buying into the draw because the return on investment will be difficult to determine, also it is easier to track electronic submissions.
After finding this interesting piece of news in the regulations, I now know another reason why Ticketmaster has set this up:
Applicants may request up to eight (8) tickets. Each ticket will admit the bearer to all sessions of competition at a site (three total sessions for first-/second-round sites and two total sessions for regional-round sites).
Applicants who are not selected to receive tickets will receive a full refund less the applicable service fee ($10 per ticket). All refunds will be made electronically.
Whoa! Ten bucks from every ticket! So if you want to TRY to get 8 tickets... and you fail.. it costs you $80. Interesting move - anyone want to comment on this?
Get an application for NCAA tickets here or here are the official rules.
1 comment:
Myself - I'm going to leave the first one - that $10 per ticket is too much and this is a pure money-grab. $10 per ORDER would be a reasonable non-refundable fee... but $10 ticket is crazy.
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